Re: RP2350 and Pico 2 - things missing

On Fri, 30 Aug 2024 14:28:06 +0100
John Aldridge <jpsa@cantab.net> wrote:

In article <20240829191334.570e88c7507598ffe5b28d87@eircom.net>,
steveo@eircom.net says...

Portable code should only rely on the standards not
implementations, some very weird possibilities are legal within the
standard.

 
Heh, yes. I worked for several years on a machine where a null
pointer wasn't all bits zero, and where char* was a different size to
any other pointer.

 
That rings vague bells, what was it ?

 
Prime. It was word, not byte, addressed, so a char* had to be bigger.

Thank you, that was indeed the bell it rang. I only heard about it,
never met it.

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